Faculty : Faculty of International Business and Humanities

School : School of International Business

Course Description :

This course introduces applications for the accountant’s role in the decision making process. Topics include contribution margin analysis, job order and process costing, standard costing, transfer pricing, profit planning, cost centers, cost volume, profit relationships, activity-based costing, inventory control and other current issues.

Faculty : Faculty of International Business and Humanities

School : School of International Business

Course Description :

In today’s world of rapid information flows, rising volatility, regulatory concerns and oversight, prudent management increasingly requires understanding and measuring risk. Merged or individual banks, securities dealers, insurance companies and industrial firms with significant financing operations, all require enterprise-wide risk management that may span many operations across currencies and locations in real time. Risk management establishes standards for aggregating disparate information, gathering market data, calculating risk measures and creating timely reporting tools for management market, credit, and operational risks. This course is designed to help students understand how large-scale complex risk can be quantified, needs to be managed and architected. The course identifies the business and technical issues,regulatory requirements and techniques to measure and report risk across a major organization.

Faculty : Faculty of International Business and Humanities

School : School of International Business

Course Description :

This course introduces the characteristics of Japan as a place of business and the main aspects of Japanese management. The course starts with theoretical discussion on culture and its relevance for international management and business communication. After this an overview of the modern Japanese business environment is given. Major points of discussion are the most prominent aspects of Japanese management, such as production management, distribution as well as human resource and knowledge management within Japanese corporations.

Faculty : Faculty of International Business and Humanities

School : School of International Business

Course Description :

The focus of the first part of this course is in the area of financial management. It is structured to show students how managers interface with accounting and finance departments, and to help them understand how firms meet their financial objectives utilizing financial decision-making. This course also explains financial tools and techniques, which can be used to help firms maximize value by improving decisions relating to capital budgeting, capital structure, and working capital management. The second part of the course covers the basic concepts of management control system, a review of the financial control systems, and discussion of the basic tools management can use to establish effective financial controls. The rest of the course will be devoted to in-depth discussion of different financial control tools using a case-based approach, with emphasis on how to use those tools in business and not-for-profit organizations. It will also include an evaluation of the effects of alternative financial control mechanisms on the quality of decisions made by the management.

Faculty : Faculty of International Business and Humanities

School : School of International Business

Course Description :

This course covers basic topics of Tax accounting according to the Egyptian tax law and it is designed to introduce the students the basic knowledge for preparing tax return. Topics include an introduction to the Egyptian tax system, tax on commercial and industrial activities, tax on free professions, tax on salaries and the like, tax on real estate wealth revenues, and the main differences between tax on juridical persons and tax on natural persons.